Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics. To assess such a claim requires that we make a giant leap of the imagination to transport us to a state of ignorance about even the most ...

"Star Gazing" explores the life and contributions of Galileo Galilei, highlighting his groundbreaking discoveries in astronomy and the challenges he faced from the scientific community and the church.

I believe there to be parallels between this discovery and social media. The date was August 25, 1609 when Galileo, the chair of mathematics at Italy's University of Padua, presented an improved ...

A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment—the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects ...

It's long been known that Hawking's birthday, January 8, 1942, fell on the 300th anniversary of the death of another great science mind, Galileo Galilei. But the day of his death, in the early ...